Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bollinger, John C wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:40PM CEST:
> It seems that normally, the generated configure script creates dummy
> *.Po files in the right places, thus masking the absence of Make rules
> for that purpose.  In my case, however, I used Make variables in
> Makefile.am to abbreviate the (long) paths from my project root to my
> source files.

That's the cause.  Automake cannot currently cope with non-literals in
source file names.  I've tried before to eliminate this unfortunate
limitation (at least for the 'depfiles' config.status commands); maybe
I should dig that out again sometime.  But for now, that's what you'd
need to undo to avoid this bug.

Cheers,
Ralf